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The answer to the first question had two typos which are now corrected--In Helene, a woman of undeniable character, considered her current situation a potential disaster, the subject Helene, a woman of undeniable character consists of two appositives:Helene and a woman of undeniable character.

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The quiz is no longer available, butthe texts used in this quiz are also found below in this announcement.

Treat all proper nouns as complete NPs for this test.

The texts used in this quiz are:

Text 1: Chap lay on the thick rug beside Wynn's bed as she slept, and the kittens, Tomato and Potato,were curled around her on the pillow.Their rumbling purrs were louder than Chap thought possible forsuch annoying little things. Even so, he would not have rested if the room were silent.

Something had gone wrong in the Droevinkan forest, when he had tried to cleanse wild magic from the young sage. Instead, her mantic sight had merely gone dormant and now began to remanifest in new ways. Though this botheredhim deeply, it was not why he remained restless and unable to sleep.

Each time he closed his eyes, Chap saw images of Neina and her mother, Eillean. And he remembered the name Byrd had used for the elf who had come in the night. (129-130)

Text 3: Three years had passedsinceHediwasfirstvisitedbyoneofByrd'slesssavoryconfidants.Not long after that she began spyingfortheVonkayshi. She dreamed of Darmouth's death long before then and foundshewasnotaloneinthatdesire. She'd seen many attempts on Darmouth's life. Those involved tried, failed, and died as traitors. Byrd was not to be trusted with anyone's safety or agenda besides his own. His heart was made of ice, but he was the first one to make HedibelieveDarmouthcouldbedealtwith.

Toassisthim, Hedi took mental notes or made quick diagrams on scraps of paper, if she had time, whenever she went with Emel into Darmouth's stronghold. (115)

In response to request(s), I've written a walkthrough of identifying NPs, available here. I'll be adding some more later in the week since this does not include identifying adverbial noun phrases or noun phrases that consist of appositives.